We have recently seen a number of organizations trying to improve their energy and cost performance by applying PUE targets to site operations teams (here is an example from the Australian Government). Whilst these are intended to be a…

There has been a recent flurry of activity around Data Center energy Productivity (DCeP) as an efficiency metric for data centers which has been proposed by a global taskforce, consisting of the Green Grid, along with two US government agencies…

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Many data center facilities focus on improving the infrastructure efficiency, measured by PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness), but a single minded focus on that metric will often yield perverse results,…

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Power, IT assets, PUE and temperatures are the focus of data center monitoring today. But, Capacity (the ability of the facility to support IT equipment) is being overlooked. At any point in time, 30%…

The typical data center will lose at minimum 30% of its total compute capacity in the absence of careful coordination of the space, power, cooling and IT equipment distributions. Many have turned to DCIM tools to protect capacity that is lost as a result of data center operations.

But, DCIM tools can only monitor/track power, IT assets, temperature and space only, NOT…

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The typical data center will lose at minimum 30% of its total compute capacity in the absence of careful coordination of the space, power, cooling and IT equipment…

Global Property Advisor, CBRE, has published this white paper “At the End of the Day – It’s Lost Capacity” as a roadmap to a fully deployed data center and you can download it from the link below.

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Release 8 of the 6SigmaDC software suite brings a raft of user-led performance updates to further enhance its market leading Predictive DCIM capabilities

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The latest advent in data center cooling is intelligent networked HVAC systems. The HVAC systems are intelligently managed to allow remote sensors to provide feedback so that the HVAC…

You may have asked yourself, “Why do I need another monitoring and reporting product if I already have five?” True, you most likely don’t need another monitoring product, but rather what you really, really need is a system to link these systems together.…

I spend a great deal of time talking about data center efficiency and the technologies available to assist in driving efficiency up. Additionally a great deal of my time is spent discussing how to determine success in the process(es). What I find is that there is still a fundamental missing appreciation for the need for 'continuous' real-time monitoring to measure…

The IT industry has focused a tremendous amount of attention to the concept of 'GREEN' over the past 5 years. Many of the players, both IT vendors and consumers of IT gear alike have created GREEN Officers or Sustainability Czars, and even whole organizations that focus on 'greening' a company or a product strategy. Green is timely and exciting and…

With all of the efforts to get energy under control, it is not surprising that there are a number of new energy bills making their way through congress. One of the most 'spectacular' in-process bills with…

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Yes, it is a fact now: your data center is now comparable to fridges, washing machines and microwaves. In what way?

No points if you guessed right: data centers can now earn the Energy Star label as well. It is not very easy though, as…